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Wednesday, September 03, 2008

Ego and the Freedom Zone

Your humble Devil is busy, busy, busy—and playing host to Timmy as he beds down into his UKIP press officer job. This has led to a slight contraction in my already small amount of spare time, and a reasonable rise in my alcohol consumption.

The Freedom Zone is the brainchild of the Freedom Assoication, inconjunction with Forest and The Free Society and is being hosted in Auston Court, a state-of-the-art 150 seater theatre. They're going to have free wifi and blogging facilities which is handy.

There are all sorts of interesting things going on during the two days incluing discussions with David Davis, a discussion on the TV license etc. Additionally, I have been invited by Simon Clark of Forest to be on a panel on Monay 29th on the subject of "Freedom and the Internet".

The full details of the event can be found in this PDF, but the confirmed panel members are: your humble Devil, Dizzy and Nadine Dorries and Iain Dale in the chair.

Speaking of Master Dale, he has released the list of the Top 100 Right of Centre blogs, as featured in the forthcoming Guide To Political Blogging 2008/09. Although your humble Devil acknowledges all of the caveats about these lists and rankings, he is nevertheless rather chuffed to have moved up three places from last year's Right of Centre list...

Once again, the traditional thanks to all contributors, commenters and readers at The Kitchen—and I do really mean "thank you". Who would have thought that this little site—started on a whim after I saw a news story about a guy sacked because of something called "a blog"—would reach such dizzy heights, eh?

Anyway, I have a few items up my sleeve, a couple of which I shall try to publish at lunchtime but I am finding it difficult to get really worked up about politics: the NuLabour government has the stench of death around it and we are just waiting for the whole tired edifice to topple over and finally give up the ghost.

And then we can get stuck into Cameron and his merry men...

UPDATE:the final list is out, and your humble Devil is very happy to have retained his spot at #6 in the Top 100 Political Blogs. Although I'm not sure about this...

13 comments:

' ... I am finding it difficult to get really worked up about politics: the NuLabour government has the stench of death around it and we are just waiting for the whole tired edifice to topple over and finally give up the ghost.'

We're precisely where we were in the dying days of the Major government except that Blair and Brown, and the rest of the crooks and clowns, have destroyed the faith we once had in mainstream parties.

Nothing will be improved by Grooovey Dave's Conservatives, should they win a majority, and nothing will be changed by them.

The country will die when the tories get in. The union will be dissolved. Drugs will be legalised because of the cocaine addicts in the tory elites, The country will fall apart. Great countries need great leaders.